Native tape is dead in 2k8. Folks, either deal with it, plan on backupassist and get over it. It is what it is and no amount of “tape is better” arguing will change this. I have never “dropped a drive” enough to lose data.

If you ask your clients, ask them if they even like rotating tapes at all and if the answer is no, check out www.efolder.net as well.

A few years ago we NEVER thought the native backup was good enough…so it’s funny how things change.

P.S…. the backup support only for harddrives is a Windows Server 2008 requirement. This isn’t unique to SBS.